The climax of this movie is the dispute of rap in the end of the plot between B-Rabbit and the Free World group. He meets Alex (the charming Brittany Murphy) and starts dating with her. He is living temporarily with his mother Stephany (a Kim Basinger without any glamour) and his young sister Lily. He dreams on being successful with music and consequently leaving that poor area of Detroit. He spend his time working as a worker in a sheet-metal stamping press for parts of cars and with his four friends, participating in raps and hip-hop competitions. `B-Rabbit' (Eminem) is a young man living in a poor district of Detroit. The script wants to be a modern version of Saturday Night Fever but it lacks that film's showboating. Basinger never convinces as a rough lower working class mom type. Each time he goes to his mother's house it ends up in some sort of a fight. Eminem is rather flat swerving somewhere between mournful and angry. Director Curtis Hanson uses all his Oscar winning skills to try to sell this as a real, gritty film. 8 Mile is an underdog story as the working class guy makes good with the help of his multi racial friends. The trouble is Rabbit gets overcome with nerves every time he tries to perform in front of a crowd and take his rival down. Rabbit works hard, his friend gets him gigs to engage in rap battles in clubs where he is dubbed as Elvis, AKA as a white guy trying to sell a piece of black culture. Rabbit has moved back to his trailer thrash mum (Kim Basinger) after a break up with his girlfriend. In 8 Mile, Eminem is Jimmy 'Rabbit' Smith a slightly fictionalised version of himself living in a working class neighbourhood of Detroit.

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